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Posted by Starshine Moonbeam on December 29, 2004, 1:35 pm
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(grunburger74@yahoo.com) dropped a +5 bundle of words...
> My web site is not particularly theme-based, but it contains an Art Gallery
> I'd like to display in a different perspective. I would like to horizontally
> scroll it, rather than vertically - as if the viewer is virtually "walking"
> through the gallery. I'm just attempting this to have this part of the page
> be different.
>
> Is horizontal scrolling okay, or will it throw our browsers into chaos and
> viewers into insanity?
I'm gonna throw my two cents in. Don't do it. Faaaar better to scroll
down than horizontally. It's a pet peeve of mine. I can live with it if
it's a smidge over but too much and I'm gone. Too much info gets buried
off to the side and that makes it just suck. It never impresses me.
I don't know if it's a rule, per se but it should be.
> If horizontal scrolling is acceptable, how would I
> code it to render properly, as opposed to vertical scrolling?
I've done some reading on usability. Merges.net is a pretty good
resource. Brucie in alt.html has about a zillion helpful links but he's
MIA right now, according to the regs there. Anyway, the point I was
going to make is that while webcoders design like people are going to
read every little bit, people don't actually do that.(usually) They
scan, pick out what they want and go right to it.
Having stuff scroll all the way to the right hinders that. If they don't
notice the horizontal bar they're never going to see the content. In
addition, now they have to scroll over to see it. It's easy to get lost
in a page doing things like that. If they get lost, you're done. They'll
just go somewhere else. There are like 50 million websites out there.
The next one's just a mouseclick away.
You could do something like this:
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| | <---- current pic
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- -
- - <-- previous pic
- -
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Or something like that. You probably don't want a whole lot of...stuff
for lack of a better word since 1) The pics will take longer to load
(obviously) and 2) You don't want to distract from the overall effect of
the picture(s). That's all jmo, though, so take it or leave it as you
will.
Make sure that people can get back to the home page from any point in
the walkthrough. I know from my own experiences as a web user that if I
can't get back to the home page/page out of the loop from something like
that, I'm gone.
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Starshine Moonbeam
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